How the West Was Won (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, George Peppard, Gregory Peck, Jimmy StewartBrand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Milton Krasner
Cinematographer: Joseph La Shelle
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Restored, Surround Sound
Running Time: 164 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of How the West Was Won (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: "WON" by Blu-Ray
Summary: 5 Stars
Look at this on a big screen TV! The improvement in image quality, sharpness, and color on this blu-ray edition is enormous. Watching this film in the SmilE format on the second disc is a treat and makes us remember what a spectacular stunt Cinerama was when we originally saw this on a huge curved panoramic screen for it's original release. It's certainly the kind of startling innovative technology that sold tickets and put us in theater seats; but if you find it distracting, return to the conventional widescreen version on disc one. Both are stunning--and somehow seem superior to the actual original projected theatrical film in their sharpness and color!
The very-widescreen image finally looks complete. The two "un-seam-ly" overlap lines that marred ALL previous showings, releases, and formats are almost totally and miraculously unnoticeable on both blu-ray discs! Now, without experiencing those persistent distractions and odd distortions, we rediscovered a spectacular film with a surprising amount of good acting and witty and often moving dialogue.
Of course, it includes some of the most stunning classic action sequences this side of Ben Hur and CB DeMille! And what a great cast and superb score. The blu-ray is a marvel and a must-have. And some might buy it for the fascinating "Cinerama Adventure" documentary alone, included here on disc one!
Summary of How the West Was Won (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]
With courage, sinew and conflict: that's how the West was won. With three directors, five interlocked stories, some of movie history's most legendary action scenes and a constellation of acting talent: that's how How the West Was Won was filmed. Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart and John Wayne are among the big names in this big saga following a family's move West through generations - marked by the spectacles of a heart-pounding raging river ride, a thunderous buffalo stampede and a bracing runaway train shootout. Via technological advances, this panoramic winner of three Academy Awards can now be seen with a resplendent, restored clarity eliminating its original "three- panel join lines" and in roof-raising Dolby 5.1 audio. Westward ho!The first feature film to be photographed and projected in the panoramic three-camera Cinerama process, this epic Western is almost as expansive as the West itself, chronicling a pioneering family's triumphs and tragedies in numerous episodes spanning three generations and a half century of westward movement. Divided into five segments directed by veteran Hollywood filmmakers Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, and the legendary John Ford (and including uncredited sequences directed by Richard Thorpe), the film was one of the most ambitious ever made by the venerable MGM studio. Its stellar cast reads like a virtual who's who of Hollywood's biggest stars. Debbie Reynolds plays a sturdy survivor of many pioneering dangers, and the eventual widow of a gambler (Gregory Peck), who is later reunited with her nephew (George Peppard), a Civil War veteran and cavalryman who heads for San Francisco as the transcontinental railroad is being built. Many more characters and stories are woven throughout this epic film, which is dramatically uneven but totally engrossing with its stunning vistas and countless outdoor locations in Illinois, Kentucky, South Dakota, Monument Valley in Arizona, California, Colorado, and elsewhere. --Jeff Shannon
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